← I’ll try and say “How doth the little--“’ and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, 🔊
← The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little, ‘From the Queen. 🔊
← Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question. 🔊
← and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what they said. 🔊
← Alice was thoroughly puzzled. ‘Does the boots and shoes!’ she repeated in a wondering tone. 🔊
← ‘Stand up and repeat “‘Tis the voice of the sluggard,”’ said the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!’ thought Alice; ‘I might as well be at school at once.’ 🔊
← However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- 🔊
← ‘What is the use of repeating all that stuff,’ the Mock Turtle interrupted, ‘if you don’t explain it as you go on? It’s by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!’ 🔊
← ‘Chorus again!’ cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of ‘The trial’s beginning!’ was heard in the distance. 🔊